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		pjmlp on Feb 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C Apple, Google, Microsoft, ARM, Oracle are taming C with hardware memory tagging. Apple and Microsoft on top of that, have their safe C dialects. Red-Hat, Google and Microsoft are adding lifetime analysers to their C and C++ compilers. I think they understand why C is ubiquitous, and why something has to be done to fix it.

_dh54 on Feb 28, 2021 [–]

Rust/Zig may have reasonable success in large companies such as those you mention. Lisp also finds strong usage in specific domains and industries.

Their complexity will limit their success in the long tail of use cases where C is well established and “good enough.”

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